May 24, 1912] 
dents form about 80 per cent., the remainder 
being transient visitors in winter, spring and 
fall, of which about 106 species are of merely 
casual occurrence, with only from one to half 
a dozen records within the state for each. 
The nomenclature and classification adopted 
conform to the third edition of the A. O. U. 
Checklist, which renders unnecessary the cita- 
tion of original references for the genera and 
species. The author has also adopted a con- 
cise method of citing the Colorado references 
under each species, where the name of the au- 
thor, an abbreviated date and a page reference 
direct the reader to the full title and place of 
publication of the paper given in the bibliog- 
raphy near the close of the volume (pp. 532- 
551), which mentions every publication of 
importance relating to Colorado ornithology 
up to December, 1910. This is followed by a 
gazetteer of the localities specially mentioned 
(pp. 553-562). With the keys to the higher 
groups, genera and species, the very satisfac- 
tory descriptions, the notes on distribution 
and habits, the author has succeeded in pro- 
viding an admirable handbook of Colorado 
ornithology. Although there are here and 
there a few minor slips, the work bears the 
earmarks of a practised hand, and shows a 
thorough mastery of the subject, although the 
author’s sojourn in Colorado was a compara- 
tively brief one and his personal experience 
with Colorado birds thus necessarily limited. 
The work is dedieated to his friend and pa- 
tron, the late General Palmer, whose portrait 
forms the frontispiece of the volume. The 
half-tone plates illustrate the nesting habits of 
a number of interesting species, from photo- 
graphs by well-known Colorado ornithologists. 
A contour map shows the principal streams, 
the counties and county-seats of the state, and 
indicates on a small scale the diversity of alti- 
tude and physical features. 
J. A. A. 
BOTANICAL NOTES 
THE GARDEN IN EDUCATION 
Dora WititaMs has done a good thing in 
writing a little book on “Gardens and their 
Meaning” (Ginn), and doing it in such an at- 
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tractive way that its reading is certain to ac- 
complish what the author desired, namely, “to 
show the importance of science in the use of 
spade and hoe, and to urge that a garden for 
education may be, not merely in substance, but 
im spirit, a corner of the great world.” A 
serial citation of the headings of the thirteen 
chapters will develop the topic, while at the 
same time giving the substance of the author’s 
message. Thus we find headings as follows: 
What Makes a School Worth While? Little 
Studies in Cooperation; Situation and Soil; 
Plotting and Planning; A Word for Good 
Tools; Planting; The Art of Making Things 
Grow; Just How; Garden Foes and Garden 
Friends; Side Shows; New Life in Old Sub- 
jects; The Young Farmer’s Almanac; The 
New Agriculture. The reader who knows 
something of the place of the garden in edu- 
cation can easily fill in most of these chapter 
headings, but few can do it in such enthusias- 
tic words and such a genuine spirit of helpful- 
ness and hopefulness. Her closing sentence 
may well be quoted as giving the purpose of 
the book: 
Gardening, then, worked out at school after 
some such plan as has been sketched in these 
pages, will be a powerful lever to raise agriculture 
—rightly viewed the most rewarding of oecupa- 
tions—from the humble plane, where it has long 
remained, to the heights which it is destined to 
command. 
The book is evidently designed for adults and 
the older only of the school children. It 
should be widely read and discussed in the 
“reading circles,” especially those composed 
of earnest teachers, where it should do much 
good. One is tempted to suggest that the au- 
thor should now write a complementary book 
for the children, a difficult task, but one for 
which she appears to be well fitted. 
AN ISLAND FLORA 
AxouT seven years ago the California Acad- 
emy of Sciences sent a scientific expedition to 
the Galapagos Islands (500 to 600 miles west 
of Equador), one of the incidents of which 
was an eleven days’ visit to Cocos Island about 
midway between Costa Rica and the archipel- 
